Scrubbing your face for a perfect look

Facial scrubs are an essential part of cosmetics intended to restore or improve a person’s appearance. People; especially women, do facial scrub. Beauticians say facial scrub makes your skin feel beautiful, youthful, soft and glowing. No wonder a 60-year-old woman’s face will look like that of 25-yer-old after such treatment. Unlike regular soaps or cleansers, […]

Facial scrubs are an essential part of cosmetics intended to restore or improve a person’s appearance. People; especially women, do facial scrub.

Beauticians say facial scrub makes your skin feel beautiful, youthful, soft and glowing. No wonder a 60-year-old woman’s face will look like that of 25-yer-old after such treatment.

Unlike regular soaps or cleansers, facial scrub uses small particles, beads, or chemicals to get rid of old skin cells and make way for new ones in a process known as exfoliation.

However, despite looking for a way to beautify your face, they advise that if you have delicate or sensitive skin, caution must be undertaken in using facial scrub. 

They advise that, “Twice a week might be too much and could cause some irritation if you have dry skin. On the other hand, if you live in a warm climate or your skin is naturally oily, you may have to exfoliate more than twice a week because of higher buildup of dead skin cells.”

An expert aesthetician, Julia Alekperova, while speaking with Daily Mail Online, said the purpose of face scrub is to renew and refresh the skin through a process called exfoliation.

Alekperova said many facial scrubs contain tiny particles such as beads, sugar, salt or walnut shells that will lift off dry and dead skin cells, removing the outer layer of the skin. This can also be achieved chemically by applying acid such as glycolic and salicylic that dissolves those cells, or mechanically by using a brush to physically remove the cells. 

She said people with normal or a combination of skin texture should do this just once a week, adding that exfoliating every two or three days could leave people with damaged skin, which those with dry or sensitive skin were more susceptible to when they used facial scrub and that “regular scrub contains small crystals that can scratch your skin.” 

She said face scrub could also make skin thinner, uneven, less shiny and look either “oily yet dry” or “dry yet oily” and that it could leave some skins red or irritated.

She added that people should wash their faces before using facial scrub, followed by serum and face lotion that suit their skin type.

“Overall, people should pay attention to how their skin responds to a product so that they can determine how often they should incorporate a face scrub into their individual skin care routine,” she concluded.

A dermatologist and RealSelf Contributor, Dr. Michele Green, said people could reduce risk of skin damage from facial scrub by knowing which scrub is right for them.

Dr. Green added that people; especially those with dark spots, might have higher risk of post inflammatory hyper-pigmentation when they used aggressive forms of exfoliation such as sugar, salt or walnut shells.